Patrick Anderson features my moonshot plan to raise teacher pay $10,000, to 34th in the nation, on the education e-pages of that Sioux Falls paper. My plan secures that monumental raise, around $92 million a year spread among about 9,200…
Posts tagged as “sales tax”
The South Dakota Retailers Association lists monthly sales tax revenue reports from January 2004 up to October 2014. According to those numbers, monthly sales tax receipts decreased over the corresponding month in the previous year in 5 out of 46…
The Associated School Boards of South Dakota have a plan for starting to raise our rock-bottom teacher salaries to competitive levels by charging more sales tax in the summer: The average salary for a teacher in South Dakota is $40,023,…
Billings, Montana, wants to be better. It wants to be like Sioux Falls. Billings economic development boss Steve Arveschoug and other interested Billingsians visited our eastern Queen City last month to divine our "secret sauce". What do they think makes…
The glass is half full, says the City of Madison. City Finance Officer Jennifer Eimers reports that Madison's sales tax revenue increased 5.4% in 2012. But the glass is half empty, Chuck Clement ends up saying it: Looking at some…
I voted for Initiated Measure 15, the extra-penny sales tax to fund K-12 education and Medicaid. I'm not deeply enamored with IM15. There are decent arguments against this regressive tax. Whether IM15 passes or not, we will have some serious…
Rep. Frank Kloucek and fellow District 19 Democrat Alan Fenner aren't just campaigning for themselves. They are taking time to fulfill the first duty of a candidate: leading a public conversation about the important issues facing the community. To that…
Bob Mercer says the large number of undecided voters on South Dakota's three big ballot measures results from a lack of information. Lack of information? Good grief! The Madville Times alone offers undecideds over 140 articles dealing with Referred Law…